![]() ![]() Ondaatje depicts his experience as a settler in Canada and the concept of the "Other" in the character of Kip. Hana, twenty year old woman who clings to the English, caring for him loyally and tenaciously Caravaggio, a thief and a friend of Hana's father who lost his thumbs during the war, and Ranjit Kirpal Singh, popularly known as "Kip" who has been trained as a mime-diffusion expert in England and serves in the British Army. They are Almasy, the "English" patient who is burnt so badly in a plane fire that his face is barely recognizable as a human face. The English Patient is the narrative of four characters brought together relentlessly by the circumstances of the World War II. Ondaatje turns the romance into an unlikely mystery, revealing hidden facts of character and identity as the novel progress. Rather than offer a narrator telling a straightforward story. Structurally, the novel resists, chronological order, alternating between present action in the Italian villa and the flashbacks to memories of a mysterious desert romance that is gradually revealed. The factual and the imaginary intersperse into a tale of tragedy and passion. The English Patient is a work of historical fiction set in the hills of Tuscanny against the backdrop of the World War II. ![]()
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